wrapping my presentation for this beautiful seminar at @bhmpi.bsky.social on Thursday morning (Rome time)🌿 #plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱 Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?

apparently, I have obtained my habilitation as a Full Professor in history of science #histsci #academiclife by the Italian ministry!

www.rsi.ch/rete-due/pro... My interview (in Italian) at RSI (Swiss Radio), in which I discuss the importance of plant studies and the history of science in understanding ecology and the environment! #plantstudies #histsci #conenvhist #plantintelligence #plantlife

From Pier Crescenzi's Ruralia commoda On vines 🍇

Happy to share that the panel on 🍷wine🍇 I organized has been accepted for next @renaissancesociety.bsky.social #RSA #RSASanFrancisco26 #RSA26 #Vino #Wine #ConEnvHist Below the panel⤵️ I look forward to exploring this topic Join us if you are around! #histsci #environment #environmentalhistory

In my latest article for #ilTascabile, I explore how much indigenous and non-European cultures have predated the recent studies of plant intelligence, revealing a fascinating attention to the vegetal world. Here, I discuss #WallKimmer and #SumanaRoy books #plants www.iltascabile.com/scienze/cosa...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcsd... Getting ready to🌿 "What Plants Tell Us" 🌳📣 Tomorrow at ENS Paris. Programme below #plantstudies #ConEnvHist #histphilo #histsci #environmentalstudies

Next #DescartesLaboratory⤵️ November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠 The event is online, everyone is welcome #Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed Email us for info! fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...

The event is this October 29th #plantstudies #histplants #ConEnvHist

My essay on the relationship between plant intelligence (and its history) and ecology - a message to politicians! #plantstudies #plantintelligence #ecology #environmentalstudies #philo #histsci #ConEnvHist www.indiscreto.org/lintelligenz...

Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social is now available in the new warehouse - www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr... The ebook is on sale for US $42.74

Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿 Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany. www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...

November 29th, I take part in this very promising seminar at ENS in Paris on the intersections of plant and cultural studies in the early modern time. #plantstudies #17thcentury #histsci #materialhistory I look very forward to this! I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!

a fascinating podcast on Descartes's involvement with the sciences and medicine - yet, there are lights and shadows, as a powerful ambivalence nuances his medical research. #descartes #histsci #histmed #histphilo #ambivalence #metaphysics #17thcentury

a very nice book review of the volume Descartes and Medicine has been published on the #EuropeanJournalHistoryMedicineandHealth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social The book is here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-... @brepols.net #Descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo See here brill.com/view/journal...

The book review of my René Descartes’s Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies (Springer 2024) - publioshed in @hoposjournal.bsky.social (2025/2) by Patricia Easton #descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #plantstudies www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Tomorrow, I teach early modern medicine and the environment and I'll use this chapter by Federica Rotelli on American plants and early modern Galenic pharmacology published in a volume I edited www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

This Monday, October 13. The event is blended - at 2 pm (Italy time). Contact me or email <[email protected]> for link and details #environmentalhistory #envhist #plantstudies #botany #histsci #histphilo #agriculture #rustics_philo

I have uploaded on KCommons my paragraph on Descartes's ambiguous interpretation of animals as machines, from my book on #Descartes's studies of particular bodies (Springer24) #animal #automata It raises a vivid debate and I am happy to discuss it further works.hcommons.org/records/k0qp...

As a part of the EU-funded project led by @fabribald.bsky.social , this is a first event - Constructing the Environment #ConEnvHist on Monday 13th afternoon in Milan - speaking about practices and theories in premodern studies of nature #nature #histsci #histbotany #environment #environmentalhistory

More than 50 scholars joined us today for the presentation of my book on Descartes. Many thanks to Igor Agostini and the Centro Dipartimentale di Studi su Descartes, who made It possibile, to Daniel Garber and Deborah Brown for their deep and nice comments, and the engaging discussion!

Getting ready for my course: Ecologies of Knowledge - @unimi (Historical Studies) #environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history

hcommons.org/members/fabr... I have joined #KnowledgeCommons as a new space to share research and ideas, and meet colleagues I hope it works good #histsci #exchange #sociallife

#Bluehistorians #Skystorians Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿 In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free @sergiooe.bsky.social #environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture

Once delusions of human superiority and separateness are broken down, we can no longer stand by and watch Nature’s destruction. Nature is not a means to human ends but an interdependent system whose well-being ultimately determines our own.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... a nice and attentive report of the symposium organized in Pisa for the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino #ortobotanico #Pisa by Lorenzo Peruzzi and his team #histbotany #histsci #philsci #botany #renaissancestudies

I forgot to mention that Renaissance Studies at IU, Bloomington will sponsor the panel - which will thereby be accepted by RSA committee. #RSA26 #RSA #RenaissanceStudies #Wine

The next #ForumDescartes will be in Torino - January 21-23, 2026 - the CFP is available (submission by September 15) Share and apply if you are working on #Descartes #Cartesianism #17thcentury #histphilo #histsci The lineup of organizers is important! #Phdstudents #graduatestudents #philosophers

Vino🍷🍇: Agriculture, Medicine, Symbolism and Conviviality. For a Natural History of Wine in the Renaissance 🍾 My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026 #HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory Apply if interested - send me a short abstract www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

We are happy to share the second series of #DescartesLab here more info fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/home/researc... note also the side event on October 6th.

Next season of #DescartesLab is now available⤵️ The first meeting is on Nov.11, 2025 - with Steve Nadler's book on La Forge. Then, we'll discuss Cartesian ontology, Cartesian linguistic and Descartes' politics - a broad array of topics, ranging from science to philosophy and social life #17thcentury

A less-known pharmacist is Bartolomeo Maranta - a former student of Luca Ghini - who worked with plants in Naples (in a garden of Giovan Vincenzo Pinelli) and published a fascinating Method on studying plants in 1559 --- several years before Cesalpino, but also Pena and Lobel #plantstudies #histsci

www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/en/2025/06/i... Snapshot of the recent workshop held in Pisa to celebrate 500 years of Cesalpino (1524/1525-1603) and plant systematics - with the abstracts of presentations #plantstudies #cesalpino #ortobotanico #herbarium #renaissance #renstudies #botany #histsci

In Pisa #OrtoBotanico1543 to celebrate #AndreCesalpino #500years and plant systematics #taxonomy #histsci #plantstudies #plantknowledge #botany From the Renaissance to today's science, Cesalpino is a fascinating scholar. Happy to contribute with a presentation about his life and work

Today: Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy at UniFi on #plantstudies in early modern natural philosophy - mainly, discussing 2 alternatives to Aristotelianism: plant-machines and plant-intelligence Tomorrow: 500-year celebration for Andrea #Cesalpino with a keynote #histsci #histplants #botany

Next Early Modern Lab at NTU - organized by Dana Jalobeanu - features Gideon Manning on visualizing nature with text and image #visualizingknowledge #visualizingscience #illustrations #17thcentury

📣 #bluestorians #skystorians Happy to share that on October 6th, 2025, I discuss my book on #Descartes with Dan Garber and Deb Brown - who are 2 of the major Cartesian scholars of our time - chair: Igor Agostini #17thcent #earlymodern #histphilo #individualbodies link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

📣On June 4th, I give a paper on plant studies in early modern philosophy and science, why this is an absent topic in historical studies, and why this topic is important at the time - discussing the life of nature in mechanical studies The event is part of the Theoretical Philosophy seminar at UniFI

Happy to share the news that I have won the Young Researcher Fellowship - with a 3-year research project to enlarge the focus of my MSCA and explore aspects that were not within that project The title is: Constructing the Environment: A History of Botanical Knowledge before 1800 #ConEnvHist

www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/iacs500-symp... 📣 Happy to be a keynote at the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino in Pisa -🌿I will provide some historical insights at a very nice conference on botanical systematics #histsci #plantstudies🌳 the history of plants matters in today's science🌱 Program⤵️

The coming week is rich with #Cartesian events. On Wed 14th May, Giulianno Gasparri will discuss Herbert of Cherbury's De Veritate, while on Fri 16th May, Delphine Bellis and Christoph Sander present @melissalo.bsky.social monograph on figuring #Descartes' natural philosophy posters below #histsci

Next #DescartesLab Is on @melissalo.bsky.social 's book on Descartes's picturing natural philosophy, a quite inspiring research topic. With Delphine Bellis and Christoph Sander Join us on May 16th at 5pm (Italy )/11 am (EAST) - spread the word #descartes #earlymodern #17thcentury #histphilo #images

of crystals and corns - atomic studies of generation in 17th-century natural philosophy #gassendi #plantstudies #seminarerum #atoms #corpuscles #crystals

Hot off the press and on my desk! Looking forward to reading this wonderful work edited by @fabribald.bsky.social

The Plant Initiative's @theplantinitiative.bsky.social April 2025 monthly e-newsletter contains many events, resources, and opportunities related to the human-plant connection. Access the issue at mailchi.mp/plantinitiat... or subscribe for free at plantinitiative.org

Video recording of The Vegetal Turn: A conversation with Marcello Di Paola held Jan 30, 2025. Sponsored by @theplantinitiative.bsky.social This was an online conversation with plant philosopher Marcello Di Paola about his new book on plants in the environmental humanities. youtu.be/sa5DXb1S6SM

I was reminded that the volume Vegetative Powers was published circa 4 years ago, presenting a deep discussion with the powers of plants and vegetation in a wide-array of philosophers #vegpowers #vegetation #manipulatingflora #plantstudies link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Congratulations to the editor of & contributors to Epistemic Practices & Plant Classification in Pre-Modern Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment Edited by @fabribald.bsky.social www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... It appears in the @amsterdamupress.bsky social series Scientiae Studies.

#wine #philowine #histwine #medicinewine Lately, I have been working a bit on the history of wine in Renaissance #plantstudies and medicine, especially intersecting philosophy and agronomers. If anyone wants to chat on this field, I'd be happy to! #renaissancefood #renaissancedrink